Python Job Trends in Cheshire

Python
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 33 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +16
Permanent jobs citing Python 28 41 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 3.12% 4.56% 7.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.59% 16.27% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 16 17 33
10th Percentile £39,375 £41,000 £34,575
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £62,844 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £83,245
North West median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 136 252 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.14% 28.03% 35.54%
Number of salaries quoted 102 142 128
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £33,375
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -14.53% +30.00%
75th Percentile £64,688 £55,000 £72,450
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £88,625
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Python job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Python
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Cheshire over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Cheshire

Python
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 14 £60,000 - 3
Warrington +9 6 £42,500 -44.81% 9
Crewe -6 3 £58,750 +17.50% 5
Chester -11 2 £52,500 -34.38% 2
Macclesfield -5 1 £50,000 +53.85% 7
Python
North West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) SAS
2 3 (10.71%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) CANalyzer
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Loan IQ
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.57%) Datadog
5 1 (3.57%) IaaS
5 1 (3.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) DHCP
2 2 (7.14%) HTTP
2 2 (7.14%) SSL
3 1 (3.57%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) GIS
3 1 (3.57%) Neo4j
3 1 (3.57%) Power Query
3 1 (3.57%) Redis
3 1 (3.57%) Tableau
3 1 (3.57%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) GitLab
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (7.14%) ER Studio
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (3.57%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (3.57%) CANoe
4 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (35.71%) Finance
2 9 (32.14%) Banking
3 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.71%) Games
6 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.14%) Legal
7 1 (3.57%) Automotive
7 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Developer
2 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Data Scientist
2 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Senior
3 2 (7.14%) Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (7.14%) Data Modeller
3 2 (7.14%) Finance Modeller
3 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (7.14%) Games Developer
3 2 (7.14%) Graduate
3 2 (7.14%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
3 2 (7.14%) Senior Games Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) DPDK
1 3 (10.71%) eBPF
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.14%) Keras
2 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.57%) Django
3 1 (3.57%) Flash
3 1 (3.57%) LDAP
3 1 (3.57%) Middleware
3 1 (3.57%) Node.js
3 1 (3.57%) NumPy
3 1 (3.57%) OAuth
3 1 (3.57%) OpenCV
3 1 (3.57%) Regular Expression
3 1 (3.57%) RESTful
3 1 (3.57%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.57%) Blog
4 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) NVMe
4 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
2 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling
2 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (28.57%) Analytics
3 8 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (28.57%) DevOps
4 7 (25.00%) AI
4 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 6 (21.43%) Data Protection
5 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
6 5 (17.86%) Data Analytics
6 5 (17.86%) Data Science
6 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
7 4 (14.29%) Agile
7 4 (14.29%) Data Analysis
7 4 (14.29%) Open Source
7 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 4 (14.29%) Statistical Analysis
7 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) R
3 5 (17.86%) Bash
4 4 (14.29%) Java
5 3 (10.71%) C++
6 2 (7.14%) C#
6 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.14%) VBA
7 1 (3.57%) Bicep
7 1 (3.57%) C
7 1 (3.57%) Go
7 1 (3.57%) Julia
7 1 (3.57%) PHP
7 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.57%) HNC
2 1 (3.57%) HND
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) KVM
2 3 (10.71%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (21.43%) Ansible
2 6 (21.43%) Grafana
3 5 (17.86%) Terraform
4 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) SaltStack
3 1 (3.57%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Pega
3 1 (3.57%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) TOWER Software